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No. 486,113. Patnted Nqv. 15,1892.

UN TED STATES PATENT Onnrcn.

DAVID B. LIN OOLN, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN A. MANLY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, AND CHARLES T. DAILY, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

ADVERTISING-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,113, dated November 15, 1892.

Application filed December 28, 1391. Serial No. 416,290. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID B. LINCOLN, of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising-Cabinets for Hotel-Counters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an advertisingcabinet for hotel-counters, the cabinet being adapted for the display of advertisements and also for the reception of a bell, ink-wells, envelopes, telegrams, and the like.

The invention relates particularly to a construction of the cabinet which will permit the changing of the advertisements at will. To this end the cabinet is constructed, preferably, from metal, and is provided on its upper surface, and, also, if desired, upon its front edge with ways within which small metal plates, hereinafter called cards, may be arranged and removably clamped to secure them in place and yet permit them to be shifted or changed, as desired. The cards are made from metal for the reason that they are not impaired by continued use and can be kept bright and clean, so that the advertisement will be continually fresh and attractive in appearance. The matter of advertisement may be engraved on the faces of the cards or stencilled or stamped thereon, and the cards will preferably be made in some definite proportion or size with reference to each other and removably secured upon the cabinet so that they may be readily shifted or changed, as

occasion may require.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the cabinet, showing cards upon its front and the usual accessories and also astatuette thereon. Fig. 2 isa plan view of the same with the statuette and bell omitted, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The body A of the case maybe cast in one piece of metal or made in sections properly secured together, if preferred. In form the case may be round, square, or oblong, the latter being the form shown in the drawings. I prefer to cast the body hollow and to brace it by means of the stays or brace-rods B. Any desired number of depressed receptacles C D E F G may be provided in the surface,

which may be used, respectively, for envelopes, cards, matches, ink-wells, shot, &c.

A bell H is mounted on the top plate of the cabinet and a statuette may occupy a central position thereon, as shown. On the upper surface are secured the strips or plates I, having their lower inner edges grooved or cut away, as at 'i, to form ways within which may he slipped the metal cards J. These cards, as shown, are of rectangular shapeand all of the same size, but they may vary as to size. Their ends are confined by the strips I, and upon them is placed the matter of advertisement, preferably by engraving. The rear ends of the strips I are joined by the transverse strip K, and the removable stop-piece L is screwed to the body A, so as to hold all the cards in place and prevent their being slipped out-or shifted by accident or by thoughtless or meddlesome persons. The front of the cabinet is also utilized for the reception of cards, as shown in Fig. 1, and these cards maybe readily shifted, whenever desired, by removal of the stoppiece L, and the cards may be slipped out and shifted as to position or replaced by new cards. This feature of the invention is par ticularly desirable, because by reason of changes in business and for other causes changes in the advertisements are often desired. Therefore if all the cards were engraved or otherwise placed upon a single strip of metal, it would entail the expense of an entire new plate containing the business cards of the various advertisers in order to make a change in a single advertisement. I there fore make the cards independent of each other i and all readily removable or detachable from the cabinet, so that they can be rearranged or replaced at will. I do not, of course, limit my invention to precise details of construction.

I claim- 1. An advertising-cabinet for hotel-counters, comprising, in combination, a hollow metal body having braces upon its interior, sunken or depressed receptacles formed integral withthe body, grooved metal strips upon its surface and front, providing Ways, and a series of independent metal advertising-cards adapted to be clamped within the ways, substantially as described.

2. A cabinet for hotel-counters, comprising,

in combination, a hollow metal body having movably secured in the open end of the slidesuitable braces on its interior, and sunken or Wayto confine the cards therein,substantially depressed receptacles therein, and having as described.

grooved metal strips upon its surface, provid- DAVID B. LIN OOLN. 5 ing slideways open at one end, a series of in- Vitnesses:

dependent metal advertising-cards adapted DICK FARRELL,

to be placed in the slideway, and a strip're- A. B. 7001). 

